C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Warburton
A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
Reason is the test of ridicule—not ridicule the test of truth.
Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct.
The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.